G10L 13/06
Elementary speech units used in speech synthesisers
Official title: Elementary speech units used in speech synthesisers; Concatenation rules
G10L13/06 (Elementary speech units used in speech synthesisers) appears on 455 US grants and 465 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method and device for generating speech, storage medium, and electronic device25 Aug 2026US 12,718,791 B2Netease (Hangzhou) Network Co., Ltd.
- Method, apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device for speech synthesis30 Jun 2026US 12,670,897 B2Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Generating audio using neural networks5 May 2026US 12,620,408 B2GDM Holding LLC
- Abbreviation classification for speech synthesis and recognition21 Apr 2026US 12,609,105 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Text-to-speech system with variable frame rate10 Mar 2026US 12,573,372 B2SoundHound AI IP, LLC
- System24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289145 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
- Information processing device, information processing method, computer program, learning device, remote conference system, and support device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204275 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Action control system and information processing system9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192178 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
- Action control system and information processing system9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195953 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
- Action control system and information processing system9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195961 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system of runtime acoustic unit selection for speech synthesis342US 5,913,193 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1999
- Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms341US 6,665,641 B1ScanSoft, Inc. · 2003
- Concatenation of speech segments by use of a speech synthesizer308US 6,366,883 B1ATR Interpreting Telecommunications · 2002
- Generating objectively evaluated sufficiently natural synthetic speech from text by using selective paraphrases305US 8,015,011 B2Nuance Communications, Inc. · 2011
- Voice recording tool for creating database used in text to speech synthesis system304US 7,890,330 B2Alpine Electronics, Inc. · 2011